This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
How long is a pop song? In British space-punk quintet Quickspace’s world, as long as it needs to be — whether that amounts to 31 seconds or 11 minutes.
You’ll find tunes that short and that long — not to mention pretty much every amount in between — on Quickspace’s fifth album, a disc that answers the musical question: What would it sound like if Sonic Youth and Can got together and tried to write songs for Stereolab? The answer, in three words: Pretty damn cool. Fronted by former Faith Healers guitarist/singer Tom Cullinan, who plays John Doe to punky crooner Nina Pascale’s Exene, Quickspace’s tense, dense sound — a hypnotic trance of equal parts droning guitar buzz, butterfly-wing melodies and dreamy femme fatale vocals — sits a little to the left of space-rock, just this side of noise-rock and right on the edge of shoegaze. No matter how long the songs are, they seem to take up the perfect amount of space.
